Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

From Washington. Is reply to * resolution of Inquiry, Soc’y Wiihih reported to the Senate, on the 19th, that thorr had been redeemed in coin alucc its. 1, itn, legal-tender; notes to the amount of $4,133,513. Under the provisions of the Kesamplion act, the coin reserve of the Treasury had been increased to *188,000,000, that being about 40 per cent, of the notes outstanding to be redeemed, and believed to be the smallest reserve upon which resumption could be prudently commenced and tuccees.'nl]y maintained. Tula roaerva arose from the sale of >95,500,000 in bonds and from surplus revenues, and it must, under the existing law, be maintained unimpaired for the purpose for which It waa created. Tn Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, slightly amended, was passed In the United States Senate, on the 90th, by a vote of 37 yets to 97 naya. The bill would go to the House for action on the Senate amendments. The vote in the Senate was: Tsat—Bailer. Bayard, 'Beck, OaU. Cockrell, Oake, lie vis (W7\a.l. Eaten. Garland, Gordon, Groomn, Grovar, Hampton, Hama, Hereford, Houston, Johnston, Jonas, Jones (Fla.), Kenan. Lamar McDonald, McPherson. Marry, Korean. Randolph. Banaum, Saulubnrv .Slater, Thannan. Vanoo. Voorhaea. Walker, Wallace. Whyte, William*, Witheta-37. JTapt—Affiann, Anthony. BelL Blaine. Booth. Brace, Bornaidc, Cameron (Pa.), Cameron Messrs. hTu (Ga.l. 'Farley. Pendleton. Butler DM Teat. who. would have voted aye. were paired, respectively, with Messrs. Dawes. Jones iNav.L Hamlin. Plumb and Carpenter, who would have voeed no. Aoookdino to a Washington dispatch of the Slat, the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service had been instructed to transmit to the National Board of Health all papers belonging to the Treasury Department relating to disinfecting ships with yellow lever on board, and to inform the board that the Secretary of the Treasury will give prompt consideration to an \ suggest lons that the Board of Health mar make in relation to the subject. A Washington telegram of the 23d says that at the rate at which the 4-per-cent, refunding certificates were being disposed of, they would all be sold within the succeeding ten days. They were then being disposed of bypurcha*ers to brokers, at s premium of $2.90. There was a great rush for them at all Eastern and Western points where the ti ivernment agents were employed in potting them on the market. * According to a Washington dispatch of . the 24th, intelligence had been received there that Hen. Grant would leave Yokohama for San Francisco about the last of June. Arrangements had been made for s large excursion party to meet the ex-President at the latter city. Oh the 84th, after a continuous session of twenty-one hours, the National House of Representatives passed the Warner Silver bill, by a vote of Hi ayes to 97 noes.

The East. Ax Eastern telegram of a recent date says Mrs. Freemar, the wife of the Pocasset (Mass.) Adventist, who killed his child as a sacrifice, as he claimed, by the command of God in aviaion, bad realised folly the enormity of the act, to which she consented at the time of its commission, and was constantly bemoaning the death of her child. She would take scaoxly any food, and was said to be grieving herself to death. Ix a report from the Board of Home Missions, which was read before the Presbyterian General Assembly at Saratoga, on the 20th, th« following interesting facts are shown: Number of missionaries engaged in the work, 1,202; Sunday-Schools organized In 1878 and 1878, 364; number of scholars, 111,881; churches organized daring these years, IgO; increase of membership, 10,872; total number of communicants in churches under control of the board, 65,415; aggregate of congregations, 107,781; number of SundaySchools, 1,157; number of church edifices, 1;665; vaiueof sarr.r, *2,859,373; receipts for the year, 8292,559. Gloccestek (Mass.) dispatches of the 21st announces the loss of the tisbinz schooner Ida E Baker, with her crew of twelve men. Owe H. P. Peer, on the 21st, lei red from the Suspension Bridge across Niagara into the river, 190 feet below. The descent was accomplished in four seconds. The jumper was picked up none the worse for the feat. Axnocxcehext was made, on the 21st, that Sup’t Kiddle, the head of the New York City public school system for the last ten years, had resigned, and that his resignation had been accepted. Mr. Kiddle is the author of a recent work On Spiritualism, whifch has created something of a sensation. A kesolutiok was unanimously adopted in the Presbyterian General Assembly at Saratoga, on the 22d, requesting Rev. Dr. Patton, of Chicago, not to accept the invitation to a professorship In England, but to remain in the United States. The report on Colored Missions represented the' receipts from church sources as 852,911; front State School funds, 84,200. Expenditures on account of missions, (40,360; printing, 8607; officers and investments, (9,416. There are forty-eight ordained missionaries, of whom thirty-six are colored and fifty-eight teachers, of whom thirty-six are colored. The will of the late Judge Packer, of Mauch Chunk, Pa., was read, pa the 22d. It.gives 81,500,000 for the permanent endowment of Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa.; 8500,000 for a library for the same Institution; 8300,000 to St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, and 830.000 to 8k Mark’s Episcopal Church, at Mauch Chunk. Several bequests are kept private for the present. p: - The Widow Oliver lectured In Pittsburgh, on the night of the 23d, and the affair is said to have been a regular farce. Tin re were only tweoty-three persons present, and not half a dozen of them paid their way. The manager then wait out mod stood on s prominent street corner and distributed tickets free to everybody who pas-ed. Even in this way be did not succeed In filling the house. Vi ilia xu Llotd Gakbisox, the distinguished orator and anti-slavery agitator, died In New York City, on the evening of the 25th. The cause of his death was nervous prostration, resulting from paralys e of some of the vital organs. He was seventy-four yearn old. A fire began in the buildings upon the Brooklyn (N. Y.) wharfs, a little after mid-, niaht, and it was noon, on the 24th, before the Hanes were extinguished. During that time property variously estimated to be worth from 8500,00 Uto 81,000,000 was destroyed. \ 1 A fisheen ax named Pylus Walker, who lUved near Niagara, was swept over the American Falls on the 25th, in the presence of a large crowd of excursionists. It seems Walker was under the influence of liquor at the time of the accident, and lost an oar in the swift current of the stream above the Falls, While trying to row to Goat Island In a skiff. > He was quite a noted character at the Falls, sod had been the rescuer of many lives exposed to danger in the rapids of the river. The following woe the closing quotations for produce In New York, on May 24til: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; No. 8 Milwaukee, BLO4@ 1.04*. Data, WestasHsasss

£4.50; White Wheat Extra, $4.55'<5 96. Cattle. sß.oo<£lo.oo for Good to Extra Sheep, *3 7506 37*. * Hogs, $3 8304 Off AT East Liberty, Pa., on May 34th, Cattle brought; Beat, $5.0005.25; Medium, *4 500 5.00; Common, $3.7504.95. Hogs sold— Yorkea, $3.5003 00; Philadelphia, $3.7(10 3.80. Sheep brought $27504 23 according to quality. hr* At Baltimore, Md ~ on May 24tb, Cattie brought; Beat, *3.12*06.62*; Medium $3.7504 37*. Hogs sold at 14.50 <15.37* for Good. Sheep were quoted at *3.5004 30 for Good.

West and South. Concerning the recent shooting it Provo City, Utah, of the murderer Wallace Wllkerson (who chose that manner of death In preference to hanging), a dispatch fays the prisoner erlnced great nerve, and sat In a chair facing three guns, distant about thirty feet, without cither bandaging or closing his ryes. At §’ signal from the Marshal, three concealed marksmen fired. He lesped from the chair, exclaiming, “Oh, God!” fell forward on his face and continued writhing, breathing a few gasps, for twenty-seven minutes, when the physicians pronounced him dead. Judge Dundy stated to a Omaha Herald reporter, on the 10th, In reply to certain remarks reported to %ave been made by Oen. Sheridan In regard to the effect of the Judge’s decision In the Ponca case, that such decision was based upou the fact that there was no United States law or treaty stipulations setting apart a reservation in -’the Indian Territory for thosf nor for removing them thereto, or keeping th m thereon, and that they could not, there ore, be removed there by force. It Is not claimed, In the opinion, that Congress might not authorise such temoval by law, or that a treaty might not be made which would justify a resort to force. It was not •claimed that the decision would apply to those Indian tribes having reservations to which their treaties require them to remove and remain thereon. The State Colored Convention which met at Richmond, Va., on the 30 th, adopted resolutions indorsing the nomination of cx-Prcs-ident Grant for President In 1880. Tne Biennial Convention of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States met in Baltimore, on the 21et. Dwight L. Moody was elected Pres dent The Treasurer’s report shows the receipts for 1878 to have been 110.875, and the expenditures f 10,873, leaving a balance of two dollars. Four hundred and eighty associations report a membership of 65,430. On the 31st, the business portion of the Town i f Washington, La., was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of over (100,000. Gen. RobinßoN, Chairman of the Ohio Republican State Central Committee, published a letter from Sec’y Sherman, on the 31st, in which the latter asked that he he not nominated for Governor, and stated that if nominated he should he compelled to decline. A Pkouibition Convention was held at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 21st, for the purpose of nominating a State ticket. Kyland T. Brown waa nominated for Governor; Rev. J. V. R. Miller, for Lieutenant-Governor; Abraham Spainhawcr, for Secretary of State; William 8. Hubbard, for Treasurer, and Jeremiah Leiter, for Auditor. An address to the people of the State was adopted, arguing the necessity of independent political action if Temperance men ever expect to accomplish anything. Resolutions were adopted to make a complete canvass of the Btate for Prohibition, and to demand a Prohibitory law of the next and all succeeding Legislatures, hut in the meantime to accept the best Constitutional measures that can he obtained for abridging the liquor traffic. x.f On the 31st, the lowa State Democratic Convention met in Council Bluffs, and nominated the following: For Governor, H. H. Trimble; Lieutenant-Governor, J. Or Yeoman; Supreme Judge, Reuben E. Noble; State Superintendent, Irwin Baker. The platform adopted demands the strict construction and observance of the Constitution and its amendments; declares that the State and General Governments should he sternly restrained to their respective spheres and allowed to exercise only the Constitutional powers; condemns the policy and purposes of the Repub--1 can party; commends the attitude of the Democratic Members of Congress; favors the substitution of legal tenders for National Bank notes; advocates unlimited coinage of silver dollars, etc., etc. The Broadway Savings Bank of St.. Louis, thelargestTh'stiruTlo'noTTtS'klnTTiriTyat'clty, suspended on the 21st. Over (100,00.) of the money belonging to the public schools was deposited with it. The bank had a heavy line of depos tors. J. M. French’s menagerie establishment, near Detroit-, was burned on the morning of the 22d. One elephant, five lions, a zebra, leopard, and other valuable animals perished in the flames. The seventh annual exhibition of the Chicago Inter-State Industrial Exposition is announced to open on the 31 of September and close on the 18th of October.

On the 23d, tbe assignee of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, and his brother, tiled with the court a statement of assets aud liabilities as follows: Assets, *1,181,569.47, of which amount *418,536.28 is thought to be doubtful or worthless; liabilities, *3,697,651.49. Both branches of the Illinois General Assembly have passed a Militia bill which, in substance, forbids the arming of independent bodies. Before such will be allowed to arm and parade, they must connect tlieihselves with some authorized military organization. A man named Nicholas Altenhofcr, living in the Town of Kewaskum, Wis., on the 23d, caught his six-weeks-old child by the heels and beatjout his brains on the kitchen wall. He then carried the dead infant two miles to a priest and acknowledged the crime. The Cashier of the lately-suspended Broadway Savings Bank, of Bt. Louis, J. P. Krieger, Jr, has been arrested for embezzlement ami criminal conversion of ,the funds of the insliiution. Suits a criminal proceedings have also l>cen commenced against the Directors. s On the evening of the 24th, the workingmen of San Francisco celebrated the adoption of the new by getting up an immense torchlight processiou. It was a pronounced success, over 10,000 torches being in line. The meeting of the California Democratic Btate Convention has been postponed until the Ist of July. 'The Republican Convention meets on the 15th of June In Chicago, on May 24th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at *l.ol%@l.ol%cash; *l.ol%(jf 1.01% for May; *l.ol%<gl 01% for June. Cash Corn closed at 35%c for No.. 2; 35%c for May; 35%c foi June. Cash Oats No. 2 sold. at. 29%c, and 29%c seller Juue. - Rye No. 2, 61@51%c. Barley No. 2,64365 c for cash. Cash. Mess Pork , closed at *9 50 @9.55. Lard closed at *[email protected]%. Beeves —Eltra brought *4 [email protected]; Choice, *4 65 @4-80; Good, *[email protected]; Medium Grades, *4.00524 35; Butchers’ Btock, *2.65&4.W; Btock Cattle, etc, *2.40@3.«5. Hogs—Good to Choice, *[email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, *2.75(g5.60. — ; L, foreign Intelligence. According to Bombay telegrams of the 19th, armed bands of robbers were travt rstni the Poonah District and engaged in murder, rapine and incendiarism. In a proclamation issued by Wassado Bulwund, their leader, a priee was set upon tbe Governor’s head aud a Repetition of tbe horrors of the Indian Mutiny threa toned. The latest intelligence from Mandalay, re-’ Ofived On the 19tb, was to tbe effect that the Kiqg of Burmah bad ordered fresh levies of trppps/Md that all foreigners had been' forbmn tcosM to tb« Royal residence.

Ahooanptfl lo Bt. Petersburg dispatches of the 19th, news hi d that clay been received of the defeat of the Russian Army at Morv by the Tekko-Turcomans. Tier Russians Vow forced to retreat anil leave behind them an Immense quantity of booty. Full returns of, the recent vote In Switzerland, upon the question of the re-establish-ment of capital punishment, give 191,197 ballots in favor, and 117,260 against. ACOORPINO tolSlinla dispatches of the 19th, the Vice-Royal Council had that diy been summoned to consider the draft of the Afghan Treaty. a The cholera has made its appearance In most of the cities of the Punjaub. A Berlin telegram of the 20th announces the resignation of Herr Forekcnbach, the President of the Gorman Parliament. 1 He assigns as reasons for the resignation his 111liealth and the antagonism between hi* own v<ews on the tariff question and those of the mujorlty of the Reichstag, llerr vonSlaufenberg had also announced Ids Intended resignation of the Vice-Presidency, lor substantially similar reasons. Owing to the failure of the African Trading Company of Rotterdam, VV. l’olak ik Co. and S> men* A Co., of the same city, lave beep forced to suspend, and the Bank of Mtlnlvcn, the Bank of Darmstadt ami the Bank of Roti ter dam are said to tie seriously embarrassed, lolly, Kolb Hi Co., a London house with Hoi land connections, was also forced to suspend payment on the 20th. 4 A London tele?,ram of the 20th announces thj conclusion of peace with the Ameer of Afghanistan. The Macedonian insurgents have re'used the Turkish peace proposals, and sent a deputation to th ; Powers, demanding autonomy. llerh Seydenjte, a prominent Conservative, was elected President of the German Heidis'arr, on the 21st, to fill the vacancy fchu-cd hy the resignation of Von Forekcnbach. PiKiiuß Jules Mene, the distinguished French sculptor, died, at Paris, on the 22(1.. The Phillippopolis Committee, which was formed to promote the union of Bulgaria and Roumrlia, has been dissolved, through the influence of the clergy of that city. i/ According to an Athens (Greece) telegram of the 22d, an engagement had been fought at Perlasia, Thessaly, between the Turkish troops and the Thessalian insurgents, in which the former lost 45i) men killed ami wounded, and the latter, seventy, including their leader. T“ William Shaw, Member of Parliament for Cork County, Ireland, has been chosen by the Home-Rulers in the British House of Commons as their leader, in place of Dr. Isaac Butt, deceased. The Rotterdam Trading Company has, it is announced, lost 7,000.000 florins bv the failure of the African Trading Company, of that city, and has been forced to ask the indulgence of its creditors. Beveral of the Antwerp hanks are also greatly embarrassed by the failure. Sophie von IlEitsEriELu and a male accomplice have been sentenced to be shot at Kfeff, Russia, for belonging to an illegal society, for forging passports and for attempting the assassination of policemen. Ax Athens dispatch of the 23d says Greece was getting ready to mobilize 30,(XX) men, and bad sent an officer to J,he United . States to purchase iron clads. On the 23d, the British Privy Council directed that all foreign cattle be slaughtered within fourteen days of arrival, instead of ten days as heretofore. According to Berlin telegrams of the 23d, Germany and Franco were heartily co-oper-ating oti the Greek question, and opposing the British methods of solution. President Grew pardoned 400 Communists, on the 24th. The British Government lias ordered the prosecutiou of the Directors of the West of England and South Wales Bank, on the charge of misrepresenting the financial condition of the bank in their annual report. According to a Hague dispatch of the 25th, there had been fighting again In Acbeen, in which the Dutch were successful. An Athens telegram of the 25th says the agitation in Crete was increasing, and a rising was feared. Congressional Proceedings. Consideration of the Legislative, Exccntiveand Judicial Appropriation bill was resumed in the Senate, on the 19th, and Mr. IMame madwa tenftthy-speech. 8B the political

legislation of the bill, Messrs. Bayard, Morgan, Hampton and Vance answering certain points made by the speaker. Mr. Logan offered an amendment in effect giving to honorably dig charged wounded or diseased Union soldiers the preference for appointment to civil offices and liositions in Government Departments, when qualified therefor, which amendment was ruled out of order as changing the existing, law. The bill was reported liack to the Semite, and the amendments made in committee were agreed to. except one authorizing the appointment Of three I additional clerks in the Postoffica Department, which was disagreed to—2s to 26. ft was then agreed that the vote on the so-called political part of the bill should be taken at four p. m. on the 20th. , House net in session. In the Senate, on the 20th, Mr. McDonald asked leave to introduce a bill authorizing the President of the Pnitecf.States to employ the militia and land and naval forces of the United States to enforce the laws whenever their exeention is obstructed by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the judicial authorities, etc., and preventing the military from being used as a jtosse comi talus, except in cases as authorized by the Constitution Rnd laws: but Mr. Edmunds objected to the introduction of the bill, on the ground that previous notice had not been given, and Mr. McDonald then gave notice that he should subsequently ask leave to introduce it. .... Further debate was had on J the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, after which motions made by Mr. Edmunds to strike out the political clauses of the bill were defeated, and the bill as amended was then passed—37.t0 27. ..The Contagious Diseases bill was taken up, but without any action thereon the Senate adjourned to the 22d. In the House, the Warner Silver bill was taken up. and the third section, allowing a deposit of bullion in any mint and its being coined for the benefit of the owner, was finally agreed to—ll 3 to 110-after which the fourth section, providing that charges for melting and refining should be fixed by the Director bf the Mint, was amended such charges shall be the difference between the market value of bnlfion and the legal tinder of coin. The Democrats and Green hackers who voted V>x this amendment were: Beltzhoover, Bliss, Covert, De LaMatyr. Deuster, Gibson, Hurri, Jones, Martin (Del.), Martin (N. C.), Morrison, Morse, O'Reilly, Poehler, Ross, Russell (N. O.k Springer. Talbot and F: Wand; and the Republicans and who voted against it were: Daggett, Ford, Gillett, Kelley, I .add, Lowe, March, Steven'on. Weaver and Yokuro. A motion to reconsider and to lay such motion on the table (thus making the vote on the amendment final) was agreed to—ll 6to 105 - which result was greeted with applause on the Republican side. The Senate was not in session on the 2Ht In the House, the Legislative Appropriation bill was received from the Senate and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.... A bill was introduced and referred for an International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products in New York City....the Silver bill was taken up, and the fourth section as amended was agreed to-113 to 109--. he Republicans greeting this result with applause. Fifteen Democrats and one Greenbacker voted in tbe affirmative. A motion to reconsider was then tabled - 110 to 109. The fifth section, permitting tbe payment of small silver coins to the extent that they may be required in exchange for gold coin or for standard silver dollars, or for United States notes at par in sums of not less than fifty dollars, was agreed to. The sixth section, making gold coins and standard silver dollars legal tender in all payments, was amended—l 42 to 75—by the addition of a clause directing the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be paid out, without discrimination. standard silver coin belonging to tbe Government that may be in the Treasury, the same as gold coin, in liquidation of all kinds of coin obligations against the Government. and the section as amended was then agreed to. The seventh section, providing that silver coins of smaller denominations than one dollar shall be legal tender for any amount in any one pay, menti-Was also agreea-toT Tne eighth--Sijetioti-s&tborizing the issue of certificates for gold and silver coins and bullion tiaMfted. was then read, and Mr. Wanttropfted the previous quettioD. refusing to asmwMoa Proposition of Mr. Isfeas:

V’ciiun on the table was subsequently defeated lMb* 1(12 and a motion to adjourn was then agreed to. Bf.vkral bills were reported from committees in the Senate, op the 23d .. .A bill was introduced to regulate tnlcroouzne with ciSzena of tbe Chinese Empire visiting or residing in the United States, and for other purpaeee.... Mr. McDonald asked end obtained leave to introduce the bill, of which he gave notice on the 20th, regulating the uae of the army... .The bill to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious and infectious diseases was taken up, and Mr. Harris stated that the appropriation asked for had been reduced from $650 (XX) to S6OOIXIO, on aerount of the removal from the hill of tbe direction to the board to investigate the diseases of cattle. Several amendments were offered and rejected. ' In the House, the bill to repeal and amend the laws relating to the transfer of cases from State to Federal Courts came up as the business of the morning hour, but the Republicans refused to vote on the demand for the previous question, and a cull of the House consumed the time, and the bill went over till tbe 24tb... ■ Consideration of the Warner Silver hill was, resumed and the committee's amendment was agreed to providing that certificates of deposit shall be in denominations of not less than five dollars, instead of ten dollars. It was decided that debate should be allowed on the eighth section, and. after discussion, the previous question was seconded on the section and the pending amendment thereto. An amendment was then agreed to making the minimum denomination of certificates twenty dollars, and providing that certificates of deposit shell be issued at the average market value of bullion in standard silver dollars in New York and Han Francisco for a week preceding such deposit. In the Senate, on the 23d, the Contagions an.l Infections Diseases bill was taken up, and several amendments were agreed to—one of which provides that tbe bill shall not remain in force for more than four years after its passage—and the bill as amended was finally passed—34 to 12. In the House, the Warner Silver bill was taken up. and the eighth section whh adopted as ami nded. The remaining sections of the bill were, after considerable debate, agreed to, and Mr. Warner moved the previous question on the engrossment and third reading of the bill, on which there wereeigbty-six yeas and no nays, the Republicans refusing to vote, ns they des'rednn iippnrtnnivy to offer amendments totthe bill. A roll-call sho.ved 100 members present, and the’ Sergeant-at Arms waa directed to take iuto custody and bring to the bar of the House such members as were absent without sufficient excuse. Severn' members were thus arraigned, and the usual noisy and amusing scenes took place when the delinquents were called upon to offer excusi s for their absence, the favorite excuse seeming to be " the pangs of hunger.” Motions to adjourn were voted down, and tbe House was still in srsaion at three o'clock on the morning of the 24th. the Sergeant-at-Arms being still searching for absentees, many of the members being asleep upon lounges at the rear of the desks. The Senate was not in session*jon the 21th. The all-night session of tbe Honse continued until nine o'clock in the morning, amid much filibustering nnd confusion, when a motion to adjourn finally prevailed-89 to 70.... The regular session began at n00n....A Constitutional amendment was introduced and referred relative to the election of President and VioePreaident .... Tbe Post-Route bill waa then passed, and the Silver bill was taken np, and Mr. Warner withdrew his demniKi for the previous question. A substitute offered by Sir. ltyan was then rejected—--69 to 137—and the bill was passed—ll 4to 97 which result was greeted with hand-clapping on the Democratic side. The Republicans and Green backers wilio voted aye were; Messrs. Be Iford. Cannon. Daggett, De LaMatyr. Ford. Fort, Gillette. Ladd, Maish, Martin (N. C.). March, Russell (N. C.), Stevenson, Weaver and Yokum. The Democrats and Green back ere voting no were: Mes-rs. Bliss, Covert, Deuster, Hurd, Jones. Morrisen, Muller. Poehler and F. Wood. .... Adjourned to the 27th.

THE POCASSET HORROR.

A Letter from ItTrs. Freeman, Giving *ll Account of What Led to the Sac* rlflco of Her Little Daughter—Her Pear that Their Faith was a mistaken One. Barnstable, Mass., May 17. Yesterday afternoon Charles F. Freeman, whw, some time ago, killed his little daughter in the idsane belief that he was glorifying God, was removed to the new County Jail. As soon as he was placed inside of his cell he removed his coat and began to sing. Un his Way from the old Jail he appeared m good spirits, and met the gaze of those he passed with calmness and unconcern. Mrs. Freeman was brought about half an hour later by Sheriff Harris, who had procured a carriage for her. Arriving at the Jail she jumped from the carriage and asked the Jailer which way she was to go, and was taken directly to her room on the second floor in the southeast corner. She had a pleasant room, receiving the sunlight and a view toward the railroad and depot. Freeman is still unchanged, but his wife seems to be suffering in her mind, and it is thought doubtful if she survives the summer. Thev will be confined here until the Grand Jufy meets at the October term, and will be kindly cared for. The following letter was received recently from Mrs. Charles F. Freeman by her sisters-in-law in Natick, where Freeman formerly lived: Barnstable, Mara., May 19,1879. Dear Bisters: We l ave received your letters. I had looked for one for a long time. I never thought it would find us here. Am glad to know you are all well. We are in need of nothing, but we thank you for your kind thoughts for our comfort. I have no doubt you stiller for us. I cannot tell you how It all came to te. You know how dearly we both loved our precious little one. We have tried for more than a tear to live entirely devoted to God and to the good of others. We had given up dress, the desire for money and everything that was not pure in purpose. You Would hardly have believed it was Charlie. He never was profane, had not drank since I Jtnew him, and was one of the best of husbands and fathers; but now he commenced a life of 1 rayer and faith iu God, and I with him. He read his Bible every spare moment, and his whole life was spent iu Christian, earnest work for good, and his whole aim (uot neglecting other duties) was to win souls to Christ, and seek himself eternal life. One trial of our faith came one after another, and God blessed us very much the more we trusted Him. By and by there came a week and mo-e _pf great and npw trials Charlie did not Bleep or ent scarcely for nearly two week=. During this time of painful trial he felt that. God required him to have the faith of Abraham. You know what that was in regard to Isaac, lie cpuld not get away from it; the more lie tried the more it came to him. At last he said to tbe Lord he wou’d be willing to bear the test; he thought that would tie all God would ask. That seemed 1 1 end it for the day. That iiiaht if came to him more piwerlully; he could not help it. Oh! God alone knows how I suffered. But having such great faith in God, to bel eve He would stop him just as He did Abraham—that it was only a trial of faith—knowing, as I did, Charlie’s life and love, his-fear lo disobey God, a’d that be liid Abraham’s faith, I could not hinder him. But neither of us thought God would suffer her to be touch’d any more than that the day Would fail to come. We thought God would see our faith and give ua some token of acceptance. We God would thuuder from Sinai before sny harm should come to our darling; but when I found my precious Edie gone,.oh, Father, how I felt! But comfort seemed .to come again. Abraham bellt-ved God would raise Isaac, and so we felt that it was God’s plan to take her, so as to raise her from the dead and thus show His mighty power and love. We did believe He would do this iu order to show the world that tbe God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of .Jacob still lives, and so wake tip the frozen Church of God to Ps duties—the Church so married to the world that, there is ec rcely any difference between the two. We believed th s was to be, and that Edie would yet go with Charlie to preach the Gospel Of the Kingdom. What a power she would be! What glory to-Tils cause! Elijah, Elisha, Chri t and the Apostles raised tbe dead, and ,whv should not God do it now ae then! We briieved He would. But the time has so far passed and we are here. God knows we are innocent of any crime. Charlie still thinks God is going to manifest His power and glory, and himself be justified to the eyes of tj»e world.‘ God grant it may be sol Ob, you cannot know my sorrow! It al most breaks my heart I My dear, dear Edie 1 Charlie Is innocent, oh! he-K, of any crime; bm I am alraid it was a mistaken faith in God. Dear Lord, trip ns in our need. Hattie. ■ a •- ..-Tv-' ’CW »- who put down thedirst oil United States twenty years ago, is to have a monument’ at Titusville, Penn. He died poor, reaping scarcely any advantage from hi* discover^.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. * —Canadians are migrating in large numbers to the United States. —A Hartford roljin is aceiued of stealing lace laid on the ffrass to dry and using it in building a nest. —1 want to be a coachman. And with the coachman stand. And win the bom' daughter. And drive my four-in-hand. — Jnt*r-Oe*a*. —The persistency with which a fly comes back to a sore spot is a model for political management.—N. 0. Picayune. , —lt is easier for a needle to go through the eve of a rich man than for an editor to please everybody.—Kennebunk {Me.) Star. —An old unrepealed Massachusetts law makes it a misdemeanor for a negro to enter that State unless he brings property with him. —The reports from the peach-grow-ing peninsula on the Atlantic coast indicate the yield this year will be the largest ever known. —“ My Lord,” began a pompous young barrister, “it is written in the book of Nature —” “On what page, sir—on what page?” interrupted the Judge, with pen in hand. —“ People never live to a very old age in your State ” said a man to a resident of Texas. “No-o," was the reply, “ but they probably would if they got a chance.”— Derrick. —That was a smart boy who smashed the other fellow's egg, aud then justified himself with the remark that it is good for a man that he bare the yolk in his youth. —Philadelphia Bulletin. —The average Sunday attendance at church in Buffalo is 72,490. Of this number 25,000 are Catholics, 19,250 Lutherans, 8,610 Methodists, 7,115 Presbyterians, 4,965 Episcopalians and 4,550 Baptists. —Banielsonyillc, Conn., in a population of less than 1,500 Americans, has ninety-four persons whose average ago is seventy-nine years, aud boasts that, in the same population, there are ninety-seven widows. —The laager, which is often mentioned in reports from the South African war, is formed by an inner circle of bullocks and successive concentric circles of wagons, horses and wagons again, presenting a very effectual defense, it is said. smart boy in the history class, “ what did the Pilgrim Esthers first do after landing at Plymouth Rock?” “ Licked a hackman, replied the smart bad boy, who went to Niagara with his parents last vacation. 1 —There are now 2,400 organizations of the Young Men’.s Christian Association in the world, and of these 1,000 are in America. The American group own fifty-six buildings and property worth $2,500,000. Their annual expenses exceed $400,000, —“ When 1 was a boy,” said a very prosy, long-winded orator to his friend, “I used to talk in my sleep.” “And now,” said his friend, “you sleep in your talk.” But somehow, that didn’t seem to be just exactly the point the orator was going to make.— Hawk-Eye. —The average salary of ministers in fourteen of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Conferences is $572,' and the average amount 1 paid $438. The deficiency is nearly 24 per cent The Northern Methodist ministers receive an average of nearly S7OO, with a deficiency in payments of about 12 per cent. —Two men in West Haven, Conn., are engaged in rather a curious business. First they go to the graveyard and obtain the names of those buried there from the tablets. Then the relatives of those who lie buried there are looked up, and induced, if possible, to •pay a small sum to haya .tJjpijgravestones cleaned. —“ Stick to one thing,” says the New York Herald, “ until it is done, and well done.” The man who wrote that must have been inspired by watching the tenacity of purpose which inspires a spoonful of taron a pine board, doing its level best to over-shadow the bright prosperity of an unwary pair of linen pantaloons.— Burdett;e. —A West Hill man sat up one night till two o’clock in the morning, throwing poker dice with a fellow from Nebraska City, and then when they rose to go, and the West Hiller felt that all that he had was the man’s, he smiled sadly, and in low, sweet tones, more in sorrow than in anger, remarked that “ he didn’t know they were loaded.”— Bur ling tort'Hawk-Eye. —Even well-informed and well-edu-cated people experience some little difficulty at times in readily forming the verb from some well-known noun in common use, and it is not surprising that the efforts of the less learned, in this direction are sometimes as ludicrous as they are far-fetched. Causour hears of a good old doctor down on the Cape, who told a brother physician, called in to consult with him, that he had “ studied the case in all its bearings and dognozed it thoroughly.”— Boston Transcript. —The rumor that an Italian firm were negotiating in the United States for an immediate supply of 100,000 tons,of coal, in place of obtaining it from England, as heretofore, has caused uneasiness in London. A cargo of American coal reached the Mediterranean sixteen months ago, and met with a ready sale, and more than twenty cargoes have been sent over since that time. The Olobe apprehends that before long the coal industry of .Great Britain will have to encounter determined rivalry on the part of the United States.

A Plea for Sewing in Schools.

The Boston Transcript, vigorously defending sewing classes ifi the public schools, asks: "If our girls are occupied ip school the same length of -time as the boys how can they boexpedted to sit down at home two hours at work for another instruction? What time could the mother find for such an instruction? Bow many fathers give' two hours a week to teaching their sons how to use the knife? It must be as easy for a boy to whittle as for a duck to swim, yet now many boys are good carpenters? It is not prohable that many men are able to do tbeir own plumbing or there are not many fathers.of families that save the carpenter’s bills by doing the fam-ily-carpentering. Certainly the masters the schoof would hardly undertake' to do the carpentering on the school buildings: .Yet the teachers, because they are women, are expeoted to be able to teach sewing by Nature, and in a community where sewing has never boon taught systematically until withifithe- “ Some years hence, if the present thorough teaching of sewing should be allowed to continue, every teacher who has received her education in pur pub*

lie schools will have learned to set? with as much thoroughness as she has learned her arithmetic and drawing. But Bow can she teaofc it n*w, when it has been a subject of instruction iystematically avoided In her education? The teacher of the future will be certainly incapable Of teaching it if any superficial pretense of instruction in tho schools takes tho place of a thorough, persistent teaching such as is now insisted upon in the schools. “ For the schools of the future tho fact may have become Acknowledged that a class of sixty ie too large for any teacher to teach anything, and some reform will have taken place in lessening the numbers for a class. While the classes are allowed to be so crowded .it is hopeless to. expect one teacher to teach sewing, even if she has been educated to teach it.”

A Democratic Prophecy.

Mr. George D. Tillman, who represents the First District of South Carolina in the present Cohgrpss, has been letting himself loose in a political letter that is just published, and which has elicited much comment among all parties in Washington. Tillman is a representative Southern Democrat, born and reared upon the sacred soil of South Carolina, entered the Confederate service at the sound of the first hostile gun on Fort Sumter, and fought it out on that line, like a loyal disciple of Calhoun as he ..is, until the cause of Secession was finally acknowledged to be lost at Appomattox. His district comprises the Counties of Aiken, Barnwell, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Edgefield, which, before tho war—as their names indicate —was the home of a class of slaveholding aristocrats who were the most insolent, self-sufficient, overbearing, and proud-spirited that could be found in all the South. The plantations were immense in area, upon which numberless slaves swarmed like flies in summer, and where the indolent and domineering master lorded it over poor white and cringing black alike. Tillm.au is the natural product of this old nullification .soil and the legitimate offspring of this traditionallycursed social system. He was beaten in the race for the Forty T fifth Congress by Robert R. Smalls .(colored); but by a better system of bull-dozing, an appeal to the tissue ballot, and by the aid of Gov. Hampton’s White-Leaguers and Red-Shirt Democrats, Tillman beat Smalls by a vote of 26,409 to 10,664 for the latter. We are just a little particular about Tillman’s pedigree, antecedents, and social environment, because further on it will appear that this scion of an old aristocracy, nurtured upon - the accursed system of chattel slavery, is a lit representative of the Solid South, and entitled to speak for the more intelligent portion of it upon public affairs. Neither is it of any consequence to the purposes of this article that he holds his seat in the present Congress by the most outrageous and barefaced frauds that were ever perpetrated in this country, even in the South. There is not a Congressional District in Massachusetts, Ohio, or Wisconsin that would be more solidly Republican than the First District of South Carolina with a free and fair election and an honest count; and the reason that Tillman is to-day sitting in the seat in the House of Representatives that honestly belongs to Robert R. ’Smalls is ljecausd of the determination of the South’ Carolina Democrats to rule their State In defiance of the will of the majority and in defiance and in violation of all laws relating to holding elections and to counting and returning the votes. In alluding to some of the probable issues of the Presidential campaign of 1880 in yesterday’s Tribune, we incidentally remarked that the Demo-Con-federate party was just now in that business, and that very likely the country would soon be startled with propositions which would seem still more astounding and revolutionary than any that they have yet presented. That little off-hand prophecy is fulfilled sooner than we anticipated, for here comes Mr. Tillman with a programme for -the future action of his party that will create a disturbance in the United States, if seriously pressed, second only to the excitement caused by the great overt act of Rebellion itself. And if there is any law of heredity working in political affairs, as we know it does in the blood of the human family, this man Tillman is proving it to be trne by showing how the pernicious StateRights doctrine and the equally destructive theories of the nullifiers of 1832 may crop out down stream and leave their deadly taint on future generations. A native South Carolinian, a nullitier, an ex-slaveholder, a Secessionist, a Confederate soldier from choice, and a Democratic Congressman by fraud, with all that the term, implies, all conspire to make him a fit and honored representative of the party now in power in both branches of Congress, and prepared to speak for it. As to the future policy of the Democratic party of the Nation —for it will be observed, that Mr. Tillman assumes to speak only of National affairs —he says:

J * “At the worat, I hope and believe that our political oppression will cease very shortly alter the inauguration of the next President. If the President be a Democrat, it is reasonably certain that a majority of both houses of Congress will also bo Democrats, or at least Conservatives. If so, the lieconstruction acts will speedily be repealed, which would leave suffrage where itConstitutionally belongs, under control of the Urates. Then, admitting the coerced amendments of the Constitution to bo valid, the States could attach a property qualification to suffrage without violating those amendments, which would practically destroy negro suffrage as a disturbing element in the body politic. Again, after the Democrats get possession of the Executive and Legislative Departments, the present Judges of the Supreme Court, following public opinion ns law, in the futoro ns in the past, and no longer dreading either impeachment or deprivation of salary, may declare the Ueconßtinction acts, as well ns tbo two fraudulent amendments, unconstitutional, Dull and void, or, if they fail to do so the Court can be reorganized simply by an increase of Judges, even as the Radicals dftWn a memorable occasion, and, by making a proper appointment of new Judges, the Constitution of the fatheis oan be restored." The publication of this letter of Mr. Tillman’s may be a little premature as a mere matter of party expediency, so far as the Democracy are concerned; but that it fairly outlines the policy 1 ' which the South will insist npon, m the event of a victory in 1880, no man can doubt who has discerned the signs of the times. The South has been thoroughly impoverished by the war. Her loss hr property, beside the slaves, was almost beyond computation. The flower of her population was cut off, her fair fields were ; rhihleasly devastated by red-handed war, and .po strong hand has yet appeared to roll tho stone away from the sepulchre where the broken form of her crucified Industries lies buried- The banner of the Lost Cause has been folded and laid away; but it is still the idol of their imaginations and the insignia of their future hopes. They did not take kindly to their defeat—no brave people -ever dM-and j they see a way to repair Some of the l nameless damages they have sustained, and what seems to them a Constitu-, tioaal method whereby they can mend

their shattered fortunes, it ia Hot strange that they should adopt the plan marked out by Mr. Tillman's frank and extraordinary letter. , TVo important measures suggested by Mr. Tillman have already been adopted by the Democratic party, viz., the repeal of the Reconstruction acta —which is now being attempted by the Confederates iff Congress—and the-practical destruction of negro suffrage by the Democratic bulldozers of the South. The proposition for tho States to adopt a property qualification as a scheme that would effectually disfranchise the blacks is a little milder method than the prevalent custom to kill, intimidate, or shoot them, And on that ground the plan of Tillman is preferable to the Mississippi practice. The proposition to reconstruct the Supreme Court of the United States for the purpose suggested in Mr. Tillman’s letter will not be likely to escape the attention of the American people. it seems to us that this epistle is not only highly important, because of the responsible ana authentic source from which it emanates, but by reason of. the truthful, though utterly revolutionary and destructive sentiments uttered by the writer. These are the ideas that permeate the rank and file of the Solid South, and if they get full control of tho Federal Government, as they intend to at the n?xt election, they will proceed at once to accomplish their reactionary designs. But the Tillman programme is not quite complete. There are some important omissions; but perhaps he intended to leave all minor details to the imagination of the reader. He makes no mention of reimbursing the South for her losses during the war; but that was hardly necessary. With the President, both branches of Congress, and the Supreme Court of the United States reconstructed on the Confederate Tillman idea, it would be as easy as rolling oft - a log to provide ways and means to accomplish other inferior results.— Chicago Tribune.

Senator Chandler.

Tho last speech made in tho United States Senate, before the passage of the Thurman Election bill, was made by Senator Chandler, of Michigan. It most effectually stirred up the Rebel Senators and their friends. Here it is: History is repeating itself to-day. There is a proverbial sating that the Bourbons never learn anything’ and never forget anything. The proverb is very applicable to the Bourbons of this country. In .1857 the Bourbons hid control of this Government. You had a majority in both Houses, a majority in the Supreme Court, aud the whole of this Government was under your eontrol. You brought up the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and forc>-(l your Northern men, us you are doing now, to vote format lepea), and you did it by the same means then. S,r, yiSu coffwded your men till you crowded them off the brnlge. In 1857, when I took my seat in this body with Jell Davis [laughter] there were here forty-four Democrats, twenty Republicans and two Independents. Of these Democrats, Twenty-eight wire from tho Sgutherir States, sixiouu from Northern States and two Independents. Then, as now, the Independents iu ihis body, upon every question cbnnected with slavery, voted with tire South. You in caucus then decreed that Stephen A. Douglas, because he asserted that be did not care whether slavery wus voted up or down, should be degraded from tho Chairmanship of the Committee on Territories, and there were but three Northern men out of sixteen who dared to tesist caucus d ctatiou, and you degraded him and pul him off that committee. Then you crowded your men off the bridge, and they sank, to a man, Into the waters of obl.vion, to rise no more forever. Sir, of these sixteen members not a solitary man from the North ever came un to the surface of the waters of oblivion. You crowded them off the bridge. You compelled them to vote for measures which the North could not and would npt submit to. Sir, to-day you are doing the self-same thing. To-day we have iu this body lorty-one Democrats, thirty Republicans and one Independent. To-day, as twentv-two years ago, on all questions connected with States’ Rights ■*tne Independent paity, as a unit, votes with the Democratic parly." To-day you havi?, as I said, forty-two memoers in this body, fortyone leaving out. the Independent party.“ You have twelve members from the North, and i hey .are arranged thus: From California, one; from Indiaua, how as then, two; from New Jersey two, now as-then; from Ohio you have two, you had but one then; iroui Oregon you have two now, you had two then; from Pennsylvania you have one now, yon bad one theu; from Rhode Island you have none now, but you have one from Connecticut and one from New York. As I said histoiy is to-day repeating itself, and you are to-day repeating what you did in 1857." YoUare crowding your yneu oil the bridge, and the men ot t i-day, as ihe men of 1857, will sink into tho waters of oblivion to rise no more forever.

Look at the < hanges that have taken place since that lime! Sir, the : eople are more thoroughly aroused to day ngainst this doctrine, this"heresv of Stale Rights, than they were from 1857’ to 1861. You proposed to pension Jefferson Davis, and every single oue ol your Northern allies voted to pensiou him. You eulogized him as a patriot, to be compared side by side with Washington and all the patriots of the Revolution, and every one of your Northern allies voted aye. After the close of the Rebellion you claimed that you were poor and sufferiug, and we fouud you poor and suffering; we found you ragged and poor, and we clothed you;.we put upon you tl e robe of American citizenship, which you hail forfeited, and we kill, d for you the fatted calf ami Invited )ou to feast, sup; osing that you. after being cloilied, were in your rignt mind. And when we invited you to feast you said. “ We have always owned that e.lr. and you have no interest in it.” [Laughter J Noiv you inform ur that you are going to repeal all the Republican measures. What is the job you have undertaken? Yon are goin.' to undo all that the Republican party has done. Where do you begin? Do you begin at Appomattox, o • before? It is very important to know where you commence, and then to know where you propose to stop. You have undertaken a very large job, for a party of your size, and with the people who are to sit Judges upon your acts.

You b ive undertaken to unseat a man in this body. But you wdl deny that you have undert iki li the job. You have simply undertaken to investigate the case of a Senator oi\ this flooi that has been decided by the litgiiesftribunal that could act on that question. Sir, therg are twelve Senators on that side or the House that every man on this side be? lieves to lrave [oorer titles to their seats than the honorable Senator from Louisiana has to hie. By fraud and violence yon occupy your tea'A. Now show ua the road how to vacate seats in this body if you dare. • \ Mr. Eaton called Mr. Chandler to order, but l:ia i dipt.of order was overruled by the ViceI’r. s dent. There being considerable confusion in the chamber, Mr. Davis (Dem., W. Va ,) asked for the enforcement of order both in the Senate and In the gallery. Order beisg restored, Mr. Chandler resumed' as - follows: I think that every Senator on this side of the chamber believes that there are twelve Senators on that side Who hold their titles to Beats upon a slimmer, poorer basis, than my houor< d friend from Louisiana. That is what I intended to st ite—that it is our belief, and It is my belief, that their seats were obtained, and are held, by fraud and violence. That Is what I'now say. But, Mr. President, I did not rise to discuss this question; 1 simply arose to say to the other side: “You have your day in court; make the most of it. Yfeffr , time is short.” The people of the North have taken this question in hand, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from end to end of this laud, the people are aroused and alarmed at the statements that have been made and (he action that has been taken in tvls Senate chamber, and In the House, w.tliln the last sixty days. Let me say to you, 'gentlemen on the other side of the chambers " Jfene , mene, ttkel upharein” is written all over vour browS., s [Applause In the galls r es, which was promptly checked by the Chaff.] —A couple of Bucksport, Me., were married by a Justice. He afterward discovered that his term had expired at the time of the ceremony, and that it was illegal. The “husband” proposed a seuoud. marriage, but the womandaid she belieyed she did not case to, that she had had enough of married life for the present, and she left town for Bo«ton. •• ■*: